Economy
Front pageBnode, the group behind bpost, cuts its 2026 profit target for a second time and sees its share price drop below one euro
A third-quarter loss, shrinking letter volumes and slow parcel growth pull expected operating profit down to 95 to 105 million euros.
4 sources · Made in, Transportmedia, MarketScreener +Nearly three times as many new US jobs as expected, and investors now bet on higher rates in December
With 165,000 extra jobs and unemployment at 4.1 percent, the Federal Reserve has little reason to sit still.
3 sources · InvestmentNews, Yahoo FinanceAfter the tech rout, investors pencil in a lower price tag for Anthropic, which still aims to list this month
Where 2 trillion dollars was mentioned in October, figures between 1.2 and 1.75 trillion are now circulating.
3 sources · IEX via Headliner, Investing.com, Yahoo FinanceEuropean shoppers tighten their purse strings in September, with German retail sales falling 2 percent
Eurozone retail shrank 0.7 percent, far more than expected, while German industry produced slightly more.
3 sources · ActionForex, Business AM